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Overview of the ARPANET

Explore the origins of ARPANET, the first packet-switched network developed by ARPA, and understand its significance in shaping network topology graphs. Learn how early network nodes and hosts were connected, forming a foundation for graph data structures used in modern network analysis.

ARPANET

Before there was the internet, there was the ARPANET. The ARPANET was founded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense as a prototype of a packet-switched network for connecting computer resources. It would be developed into a coherent computer ...